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Dave
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
 
2005-09-26, 07:44

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Originally Posted by usurp
ok, then that makes the score between the mac and intel a lot more interesting if both of us are 32bit.
Not really. There's nothing special about 64bit CPUs that make them inherently faster than 32bit CPUs. It just means that the CPU can access more memory and that it uses 64 bits for an integer instead of 32 bits. That's about it. Nothing really goes faster.

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